technology to minimize the information 

collection burden. 

Darius Taylor, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Decision To Evaluate a Petition To 

Designate a Class of Employees From 

the Carborundum Company in Niagara 

Falls, New York, To Be Included in the 

Special Exposure Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention, Department of Health 

and Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: NIOSH gives notice as 

required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a 

decision to evaluate a petition to 

designate a class of employees from the 

Carborundum Company in Niagara 

Falls, New York, to be included in the 

Special Exposure Cohort under the 

Energy Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000. The 

initial proposed definition for the class 

being evaluated, subject to revision as 

warranted by the evaluation, is as 

follows: 

Facility: Carborundum Company. 

Location: Niagara Falls, New York. 

Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All 

employees who worked in any area. 

Period of Employment: January 1, 

1943 through December 31, 1976. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division 

of Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health, 1090 Tusculum 

Avenue, MS C–46, Cincinnati, OH 

45226–1938, Telephone 877–222–7570. 

Information requests can also be 

submitted by email to DCAS@CDC.GOV. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

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EPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

UMAN SERVICES 

gency for Healthcare Research and 

uality 

Meeting for Software Developers on 

he Common Formats for Patient 

Safety Data Collection and Event 

Reporting 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality (AHRQ), Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Patient Safety and 

Quality Improvement Act of 2005, 42 

U.S.C. 299b-21 to b-26, (Patient Safety 

Act) provides for the formation of 

Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), 

which collect, aggregate, and analyze 

confidential information regarding the 

quality and safety of healthcare 

delivery. The Patient Safety Act (at 42 

U.S.C. 299b–23(b)) authorizes the 

collection of this information in a 

standardized manner, as explained in 

the related Patient Safety and Quality 

Improvement Final Rule, 42 CFR part 3 

(Patient Safety Rule), published in the 

Federal Register on November 21, 2008 

(73 FR 70731–70814). AHRQ 

coordinates the development of 

common definitions and reporting 

formats (Common Formats) that allow 

healthcare providers to voluntarily 

collect and submit standardized 

information regarding patient safety 

events. In order to support the Common 

Formats, AHRQ has provided technical 

specifications to promote 

standardization by ensuring that data 

collected by PSOs and other entities are 

clinically and electronically 

comparable. More information on the 

Common Formats, including the 

technical specifications, can be obtained 

through AHRQ’s PSO Web site: http:// 

www.PSO.AHRQ.GOV. 

The purpose of this notice is to 

announce a meeting to discuss the 

Common Formats. This meeting is 

designed as an interactive forum where 

software developers and PSOs can 

provide input on the formats. AHRQ 

especially requests participation by and 

input from those entities which have 

used AHRQ’s technical specifications 

and implemented, or plan to implement, 

the formats electronically. 

DATES: The meeting will be held from 

10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 


24, 2015. 


ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 


the John M. Eisenberg Conference 


Center, Agency for Healthcare Research 


and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, 


Rockville, MD 20850. 


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eileen Hogan, Center for Quality 

Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ, 

540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850; 

Telephone (toll free): (866) 403–3697; 

Telephone (local): (301) 427–1111; TTY 

(toll free): (866) 438–7231; TTY (local): 

(301) 427–1130; Email: PSO@ 

AHRQ.hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Patient Safety Act and Patient 

Safety Rule establish a framework by 

which doctors, hospitals, skilled 

nursing facilities, and other health care 

providers may voluntarily report 

information regarding patient safety 

events and quality of care. Information 

that is assembled and developed by 

providers for reporting to PSOs and the 

information received and analyzed by 

PSOs—called patient safety work 

product—is privileged and confidential. 

Patient safety work product is used to 

identify events, patterns of care, and 

unsafe conditions that increase risks 

and hazards to patients. Definitions and 

other details about PSOs and patient 

safety work product are included in the 

Patient Safety Rule. 

The Patient Safety Act and Patient 

Safety Rule require PSOs, to the extent 

practicable and appropriate, to collect 

patient safety work product from 

providers in a standardized manner in 

order to permit valid comparisons of 

similar cases among similar providers. 

The collection of patient safety work 

product allows the aggregation of 

sufficient data to identify and address 

underlying causal factors of patient 

safety problems. Both the Patient Safety 

Act and Patient Safety Rule, including 

any relevant guidance, can be accessed 

electronically at: http:// 

www.PSO.AHRQ.GOV/LEGISLATION. 

In collaboration with the interagency 

Federal Patient Safety Workgroup 

(PSWG), the National Quality Forum 

(NQF) and the public, AHRQ has 

developed Common Formats for two 

settings of care—acute care hospitals 

and skilled nursing facilities—in order 

to facilitate standardized data 

collection. AHRQ’s Common Formats 

include: 

• Event descriptions (descriptions of 

patient safety events and unsafe 

conditions to be reported),

• Specifications for patient safety 

aggregate reports and individual event 

summaries, 

• Delineation of data elements to be 

collected for different types of events to 

populate the reports, 

• A user’s guide and quick guide, and 

• Technical specifications for 

electronic data collection and reporting.